LEONARDO DICAPRIO - LEO AND GISELE TO WED NEXT YEAR

Hollywood hunk LEONARDO DiCAPRIO will marry his model girlfriend GISELE BUNDCHEN next year (04) after Leo secretly proposed.

According to friends of the couple, the 28-year-old actor popped the question over the summer with a stunning $212,000 (GBP125,000) ring - but 22-year-old Brazilian beauty Bundchen kept him sweating and only accepted a few weeks ago.

Gisele pal explains, "Women in Brazil like to keep their guys waiting before finally accepting a wedding proposal but Gisele really put Leo through the emotional mincer."

The ceremony is expected to take place either in America or Brazil - but details will be kept fiercely secret.

A Hollywood insider says, "The time and the place are still to be decided but it's just a matter of time before Gisele becomes Mrs DiCaprio.

"It won't be a non-event like CHRIS MARTIN and GWYNETH PALTROW's wedding nor will it be the sort of event covered by a celebrity magazine.

"It will be a tasteful family wedding with a sprinkling of Hollywood stardust but nothing more if Gisele gets her way - and she usually does."